According to Guaidó's of Constitution, he would be first in line to assume the Presidency of Republic until free and fair elections could be held.. The politician is the president of Venezuela's National Assembly, traditionally the country's highest-level body. ..…
As a society of laws, modern America is a failure, and a failure compounded by a criminal justice system that is so repressive of the rights of the accused and of the convicted, it does not bear comparison with the criminal justice system of any other prosperous democracy, from Australia to Finland,..…
By the voters of the state through signed petition in the middle of his first term of office, Most elected representatives of America have been able to complete their terms in elected offices except for President Richard Nixon. In the last 45 years the constitution of Islamic Republic..…
“For more than a century, the Association of American Law Schools has advanced excellence in legal education and I am honored and humbled by the opportunity to serve as its president,” said Jackson. “Legal institutions, representation and elections, and knowledge institutions (including..…
Celebration of democracy turns into binge fest . . . . Trump threatens Turkey . . US President Trump (left) and Turkish President Erdoğan at a Nato meeting in Brussels in July 2018. (© picture-alliance/dpa) . . ..…
Α coalition cabinet stepped in to govern until the twin elections of May and June 2012, after which the conservative New Democracy cooperated with PASOK until December 2014. That month, parliament was dissolved, being unable to elect the new Greek president. ..…
“Today Congress declares that at this time there is no president of the republic,” Jorge Millan, an opposition legislator, said in a speech. ..…
Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. senator from New York and the 2016 Democratic nominee for president, applauded the measures in a tweet on Tuesday. . 'They're great first steps to fixing our Democracy,' she said. 'Congratulations to all, and let's keep going!' ..…
Christopher Browning, the historian of genocide, has essay about 21st Century American democracy and its enemies, including the important one. ..…
'We're a real democracy and I, Nicolas Maduro Moros, I am a truly democratic president,' he said in a televised address. . ..…
The rest, as they say, is history, and Lech Wałęsa replaced General Jaruzelski as president after the presidential election in the following year. The name of the country became the Republic of Poland instead of the People’s Republic of Poland, and the Communist Party dissolved itself..…
In a historic irony, the American president who has done the most to damage democracy in modern history has signed a bill into law that will strengthen the union. . Today, President Donald J. Trump signed H.R. 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018,..…
European institutions are already mobilised on the question of faltering democracy in this former soviet republic: besides the recommendations of the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, a joint action with the OCSE, the president of the European Council and the High Representative for..…